Category: Course Development

NURS 6008 Development

New QuizzesChange the title of the quizdelete all pre-existing questionsreview the new questions and determine whether to manually or import the questions into the quizadd/import the questionsyou’re finished for now!New Evalschange program title in the headingskip to “Speaker Evaluation”change the…

New Quizzes

  1. Change the title of the quiz
  2. delete all pre-existing questions
  3. review the new questions and determine whether to manually or import the questions into the quiz
  4. add/import the questions
  5. you’re finished for now!

New Evals

  1. change program title in the heading
  2. skip to “Speaker Evaluation”
  3. change the name of the speaker to match course author
  4. delete old/previous questions and update with newly provided evaluation questions
  5. you’re done for now! skip the marketing section (it’s the same for all of the evals)

Update Email in Eval Settings

  1. go to Action editor and change…
  2. SUBMIT ALERT for course title
  3. also change the SUBJECT and MESSAGE TEXT in the SUBMIT EMAIL action item
  4. you done for now!

Automatic Redirects

  1. Evaluation: SUBMIT GOTO action item, change the long string of characters to match the ID for the Print Your Certificate object in the the Content tab
  2. Academic Integrity: SUBMIT GOTO action item, see above to redirect to the quiz

Set Password Access

  1. review instructions from the “Password Information” document

ooVoo Testing

Linas, Molly and I tested out ooVoo tonight from our respective homes. I was connected via my wireless router hooked up to Comcast cable internet. The ABA program is using ooVoo for the Virtual Practicum course. It is a videoconferencing…

Linas, Molly and I tested out ooVoo tonight from our respective homes. I was connected via my wireless router hooked up to Comcast cable internet. The ABA program is using ooVoo for the Virtual Practicum course. It is a videoconferencing solution that features the following with a paid account: 6-way video chatting (paid desktop client to 5 un-paid web-based clients). The nice thing about using the paid account to generate a URL for non-members to use has definite advantages of ease-of-use and no client software installation. The browsers require Java and I’m sure there are minimum system requirements, but I doubt they’ll be a problem for the participating students.

When we first logged on, Linas sent Molly and I a URL to call his standard (unpaid) account. We fooled around with the settings and eventually had four computers connected (I had two on my side). The quality was awful to put it bluntly. Linas only had two bars on the video quality scale. We couldn’t figure it out since we both did network speed tests and found we had more than enough bandwidth.
network_test.png

In a last-ditch effort, I opened my desktop client using one of Ed Donovan’s paid accounts (psumi15) and generated a URL to share with Linas. The difference was night and day. We were able to chat normally and declared the test a success! I was even able to share my desktop with them, but the frame rates were pretty low (1-4 fps). I wasn’t able to send any files or text chat with them, but that’s not suprising given that they were connected via their web browsers. Twice, the video from my second laptop dropped out, but it only lasted for a second or two.

So, I think Dr. David Lee’s course should go well (knock on wood) as long as he has a paid account and no more than five students to chat with at one time.

Here’s a snapshot of the three of us chatting away:
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PBWorks for RHS 301

One of the courses I’m supporting is RHS 301. The instructor is Dawn Lorenz. Dawn just sent me an email that she’s going to use PBWorks as a wiki platform for her class’s final project. To get reacquainted with the…

One of the courses I’m supporting is RHS 301. The instructor is Dawn Lorenz. Dawn just sent me an email that she’s going to use PBWorks as a wiki platform for her class’s final project. To get reacquainted with the UI, I setup a workspace for testing purposes. I already began looking at how PBWorks compares to PSU’s Wikispaces solution.

I’ll have to see what I can do to help her with any questions she has about this and other aspects of her course.

  • how to assist the student(s) that are uncomfortable with the technology and other aspects of the course to insure their success in the course
  • her student’s blogs (how students can share permalinks from their blogs with Dawn)
  • assessments and evaluations
  • video’s in the classroom
  • Adobe Connect Pro
  • Jeopardy games
  • Polycom support and use during the class
  • and anything else on Dawn’s mind 🙂

Blogging in Your Class

An instructor for a Continuing Education at University Park (CE@UP) RHS 301 course, Dawn Lorenz, asked me about using blogs in her course and I’ve begun to pull together the resources I have on educational blogging (at PSU). continues……

An instructor for a Continuing Education at University Park (CE@UP) RHS 301 course, Dawn Lorenz, asked me about using blogs in her course and I’ve begun to pull together the resources I have on educational blogging (at PSU). continues…

Drop box best practices

I attended an interesting course recently on academic integrity through Sloan-C and learned about an interesting tactic some students use when submitting assignments for a drop box activity. I use that term generally since their tactic could be used with…

I attended an interesting course recently on academic integrity through Sloan-C and learned about an interesting tactic some students use when submitting assignments for a drop box activity. I use that term generally since their tactic could be used with any means of electronically submitting documents (email, FTP, etc.). continues…